Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...street photographer sells splendid $6.00 visions of New York
...penned a splendid processional, all pomp and circumference, for Brian Blessed as Old Deuteronomy, the group's sage and patriarch. For Elaine Paige, who was the original West End Evita and here plays a tattered cat of the evening named Grizabella, Lloyd Webber wrote the show's first hit single, a melancholy bolero called Memory...
...Ramsay Mac Donald. There was the Zimmermann telegram that pushed the U.S. into the first World War, and the letter General Douglas MacArthur sent Congressman Joe Martin from Korea indirectly attacking the Truman Administration, after which Truman directly attacked the general, and fired him. Truman of course wrote a splendid impulsive letter to Paul Hume, the Washington Post music critic, after Hume had savaged a concert of Margaret's. But the impulse was canny since Truman knew that every father in the country would be steaming on his side...
...great coyote war, a splendid Old World weapon
...Connery is perhaps the one genuine romantic hero in the movies now. He is strong; he is soft. He can be hurt physically, and take it; he can be hurt emotionally, and show it. Outland gives Connery every chance to strut and smolder and sends him off on one splendid chase sequence. The rest is strained silliness. Good Guy Connery knows that Bad Guy Peter Boyle is out to kill him, but instead of gunning him down, Connery waits till the end of the movie to wreak his vengeance-by socking Boyle in the nose. Maybe that...